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The purpose of this article is to capture pregnancy-related information seeking behavior of women and its correlation with socio-economic status and with Internet health information literacy profiles. A user survey based on Wilson's' macromodel of information seeking behavior was designed and carried out. The survey included 289 women at reproductive age who provided valid feedback on information needs, motives for seeking pregnancy-related information online, information resources employed and Internet information literacy. Responses were collected via an anonymous questionnaire and processed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 25.0. The results demonstrate that women have increased information needs during pregnancy, that they are primarily concerned about the health of their embryos and that they tend to turn mainly to their doctors, their family and to the Web for obtaining pregnancy-related information. Internet is most used by younger women and online information is generally deemed useful. The analysis of survey responses indicated that pregnancy-related information literacy profiles are influenced by women's educational status and age. Official online information sources should be made available in Greece, where women could find useful and trusted information about pregnancy issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The DRGs compensation system has raised numerous concerns and has been met with skepticism, especially among the medical personnel, almost in every country that had been implemented. The adaptation of this specific compensation system in Greece was facilitated by the establishment of K.E.N (Global Unified Hospitalization Rates-KEN), a DRGs version adjusted to the funding the compensation needs of the Greek healthcare system. Aim: The aim of this study is to identify the weaknesses that emerged from policy reform as well as to reflect on doctors' views, regarding its acceptance. Methodology: A weighted questionnaire was used to record medical staff's perceptions, as referenced in similar previous international and Greek studies. The study was conducted in the hospitals of the 5th Health Region, located in the Central Greek mainland, with a sample of 245 doctors that work in seven distinct public general hospitals. Results: Respondents with a basic medical degree had a neutral attitude concerning their intended actions regarding DRGs implementation and their potential benefits while considering that patients' accessibility will be reduced. However, specialization, MSc and PhD holders were more positive in terms of their intentions towards DRGs application, supporting the notion that might be beneficial for the patients, while being less inclined to the idea of a reduction in patients' accessibility. Conclusions: The results supported that the hospitals included in this study showed signs of responding to the new compensation system, through its gradual acceptance by a significant part of the medical population. Further analysis should consider the reform's long-term effects, along with its effects on all Greek hospitals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to investigate the information-seeking behavior of hospitalized patients in a peripheral hospital in Greece, based on Wilson's theoretical model. After a thorough literature review, we report on the results of a cross-sectoral sur\vey that was conducted based on Wilson's macro-model of information-seeking behavior. The survey exploits the feedback we obtained from 150 hospitalized patients in the General Hospital of Corfu island in Greece. For the feedback collection, we relied on a structured questionnaire that was distributed to patients and correlates information-seeking behavior of hospitalized patients' clinical data and eHealth Literacy. According to our findings, the most commonly recorded factors that pertain to information needs of hospitalized patients relate to treatment information, procedural information as well as information about the patients' rights and support. The main information sources to which patients turn for receiving information are digital scientific sources, health professionals, other patients, insurance funds, family members and friends and the media. Concerning the most frequent obstacles associated with the information-seeking process, these account primarily to individual, interpersonal and environmental factors. Finally, the research came to a conclusion with the adaptation of Wilson's theoretical model to hospitalized patients by confirming the original-initial model. The findings of our survey reveal the necessity to equip hospital units with adequate staff and to develop programs that offer updated information services to the hospitalized population. Moreover, our survey suggests that the availability of advanced health-related information services can empower the general population toward establishing e-Health literacy skills as well as toward increasing their level of satisfaction from the quality of the health services offered. In this direction, a clinical librarian program would empower hospitals worldwide to make their patients literate about health-related information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To investigate the phenomenon of moral harassment (mobbing) as well as the effect of demographic and occupational characteristics of healthcare professionals working in a public provincial general hospital and a private hospital in Athens a cross-sectional survey was designed. The study was conducted from November to December 2021 through the application of the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT) a widely recognized research tool for the quantitative investigation of ethical harassment in the workplace. 264 fully completed questionnaires were collected out of the 300 that were distributed in both hospitals (response rates: 92% for the public hospital and 83.3% for the private). It was observed that private hospital's employees were morally harassed to a greater extent and for a longer time than the employees of a public hospital. The levels of moral harassment were quite high, indicating the necessity of thorough audit by the management in both hospitals., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.)